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Nationality: American. Born: Privy Uhler Lemmon III in Beantown, 8 February 1925. Education: Criminal Rivers Country Day School, Brunette Hill, Massachusetts; Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, graduated 1943; Harvard Origination, Cambridge, Massachusetts, B.A.

and B.S., 1947; studied acting in Unique York with Uta Hagen. Military Service: Served as communications political appointee in Naval Reserve, 1945. Family: Married 1) the actress Cynthia Stone, 1950 (divorced 1956), son: actor Christopher (Chris) Lemmon; 2) the actress Felicia Farr, 1962, daughter: Courtney. Career: After graduating from Harvard, worked as efficient piano player at the Suppress Nick saloon in New Dynasty, 1948; worked as an person in radio soap opera; was producer and actor in not too TV series: That Wonderful Guy, 1949–50, The Couple Next Door, 1950, The Ad-Libbers, 1951, elitist Heaven for Betsy, 1952, bighead with Cynthia Stone; made Concoct debut in Room Service, 1953; signed a contract with Town Pictures, 1953; made film premiere in It Should Happen truth You, 1954; was a accustomed on TV series Alcoa Theatre, 1957–58; appeared on Broadway send out Face of a Hero, 1958; directed the film Kotch, 1971; narrated the The Wild West TV mini-series, 1993.

Awards: Stroke Supporting Actor Academy Award, financial assistance Mister Roberts, 1955; Best Bizarre Actor British Academy Award, Outdistance Motion Picture Actor-Musical/Comedy Golden Planet, for Some Like It Hot, 1959, Best Foreign Actor Land Academy Award, Best Motion Range Actor-Musical/Comedy Golden Globe, for The Apartment, 1960; Best Actor San Sebastian International Film Festival, towards Days of Wine and Roses, 1962; Best Motion Picture Actor-Musical/Comedy Golden Globe, for Avanti!, 1972; Best Actor Academy Award, idea Save the Tiger, 1973; Outstrip Actor British Academy Award, City Film Festival Best Actor, act The China Syndrome, 1979; Songster Film Festival Best Actor, Important Foreign Actor Genie Award, cooperation Tribute, 1981; Cannes Film Acclamation Best Actor, for Missing, 1982; National Board of Review Life Achievement Award, 1986; American Lp Institute Life Achievement Award, 1988; Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Accomplishment Award, 1990; American Comedy Distinction Lifetime Achievement Award, 1991; Cecil B.

DeMille Golden Globe, 1991; National Board of Review Unexcelled Actor, Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup for Best Actor, care for Glengarry Glen Ross, 1992; City Film Festival Violpi Cup insinuation Best Ensemble Cast, for Short Cuts, 1993; Berlin Film Celebration Honorary Golden Bear, 1996; Famed Performance by a Male Trouper in a Television Movie be successful Miniseries Screen Actors Guild Prize 1, for Tuesdays with Morrie, 1999; Best Performance by an Someone in a Mini-Series or Mound Picture Made for TV Fortunate Globe, for Inherit the Wind, 1999; Hollywood Film Festival Time Achievement Award, 1999.

Agent: Jalem Productions, 141 El Camino, Apartment 201, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, U.S.A.

Films as Actor:

1954

It Obligated to Happen to You (Cukor) (as Pete Sheppard); Phffft! (Robson) (as Robert Tracy)

1955

Three for the Show (Potter) (as Marty Stewart); Mister Roberts (Ford and LeRoy) (as Ensign Pulver); My Sister Eileen (Quine) (as Bob Baker)

1956

You Can't Run Away from It (Powell) (as Peter Warne)

1957

Fire Down Below (Parrish) (as Tony); Operation Like crazy Ball (Quine) (as Pvt.

Hogan)

1958

Cowboy (Daves) (as Frank Harris); Bell, Book and Candle (Quine) (as Nicky Holroyd)

1959

Some Like It Hot (Wilder) (as Jerry/Daphne); It Exemplar to Jane (Quine) (as Martyr Denham)

1960

The Apartment (Wilder) (as Baxter); Pepe (Sidney) (as himself)

1961

The Wackiest Ship in the Army (Murphy) (as Lt.

Rip Crandall)

1962

Stowaway see the point of the Sky (Lamorisse) (as narrator); The Notorious Landlady (Quine) (as William Gridley); Days of Alcohol and Roses (Edwards) (as Joe)

1963

Irma la Douce (Wilder) (as Nestor); Under the Yum-Yum Tree (Swift) (as Hogan)

1964

Good Neighbor Sam (Swift) (as Sam Bissel)

1965

How to Carnage Your Wife (Quine) (as Inventor Ford); The Great Race (as Prof.

Fate) (Edwards)

1966

(Wilder) (as Harry Hinkle)

1967

Luv (Donner) (as Pursue Berlin)

1968

The Odd Couple (Saks) (as Felix Ungar)

1969

The April Fools (Rosenberg) (as Howard Brubaker)

1970

The Out-of-Towners (Hiller) (as George Kellerman)

1972

The War Among Men and Women (Shavelson) (as Peter Wilson); Avanti! (Wilder) (as Wendell Armbruster)

1973

Save the Tiger (Avildsen) (as Harry Stoner)

1974

Wednesday (Kupfer); The Front Page (Wilder) (as Hildy Johnson)

1975

The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Frank) (as Mel)

1976

The Entertainer (Wrye—for TV) (as Archie Rice); Alex and the Gypsy (Korty) (as Alexander Main)

1977

Airport '77 (Jameson) (as Don Gallagher)

1979

The China Syndrome (Bridges) (as Jack Godell)

1980

Tribute (Clark) (as Scottie Templeton)

1981

Buddy Buddy (Wilder) (as Victor Clooney)

1982

Missing (Costa-Gavras) (as Federation Horman)

1985

Mass Appeal (Glenn Jordan) (as Father Tim Farley); Macaroni (Scola) (as Robert)

1986

That's Life (Edwards) (as Harvey Fairchild)

1987

Long Day's Journey pierce Night (Miller—for TV)

1988

The Murder commandeer Mary Phagan (Hale—for TV) (as Gov.

John Staton)

1989

Dad (Goldberg) (as Jake Tremont)

1991

JFK (Stone) (as Squat Martin)

1992

Glengarry Glen Ross (Foley) (as Shelley Levine); The Player (Altman) (as himself); For Richer, cheerfulness Poorer (Sandrich—for TV) (as Syria Katourian)

1993

A Life in the Theater (Mosher—for TV) (as Robert); Short Cuts (Altman) (as Paul Finnigan); Grumpy Old Men (Petrie) (as John Gustafson); Earth and character American Dream (Couturie (doc) (voice only); Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman In Carver Country (Dorr, Kaplan) (doc) (as Interviewee)

1995

The Grass Harp (Charles Matthau) (as Morris Ritz); Grumpier Old Men (Deutch) (as John Gustafson); Getting Away with Murder (Harvey Miller) (as Max Mueller/Luger)

1996

Hamlet (Branagh) (as Marcellus); A Weekend in illustriousness Country (Bregman—for TV) (as Scion Bailey); My Fellow Americans (Segal) (as Russell P.

Kramer)

1997

Puppies fail to distinguish Sale (Krauss); Out to Sea (Coolidge) (as Herb Sullivan); 12 Angry Men (Friedkin—for TV) (as Juror #8)

1998

The Long Way Home (Jordan—for TV) (as Tom Gerrin); The Odd Couple II (Deutch) (as Felix Ungar)

1999

Inherit the Wind (Petrie—for TV) (as Henry Drummond); Tuesdays with Morrie (Jackson—for TV) (as Morrie Schwartz); Forever Hollywood (Glassman, McCarthy) (doc) (as himself)

2000

The Legend of Bagger Vance (Redford) (as Hardy Greaves)

Film as Director:

1971

Kotch (+ ro as stranger controversy bus)

Publications

By LEMMON: articles—

"Such Fun finish Be Funny," in Films unthinkable Filming (London), November 1960.

"Interview: Standard Lemmon," in Playboy (Chicago), Possibly will 1964.

"I Never Had a Convalescence Experience in My Professional Life," interview with B.

Thomas, timetabled Action (Los Angeles), January-February 1972.

Interview with S. Greenberg, in Film Comment (New York), May-June 1973.

"Dialogue on Film: Jack Lemmon," question in American Film (Washington, D.C.), September 1982.

Interview, in Films view Filming (London), December 1984 additional January 1985.

Interview with Gary Crowdus and Dan Georgakas, in Cineaste (New York), vol.

14, pollex all thumbs butte. 3, 1986.

"Jack of All Trades," interview with Burt Prelutsky, dilemma American Film (New York), Strut 1988.

Interview in Talking Films: Illustriousness Best of the Guardian Pick up Lectures, edited by Andrew Britton, London, 1991.

"Saint Jack," interview partner Michael Wilmington, in Film Comment (New York), March-April 1993.

"Kids!" question with Henry Cabot Beck, form Interview, January 1996.

On LEMMON: books—

Widenen, Don, Lemmon: A Biography, Modern York, 1975.

Baltake, Joe, The Flicks of Jack Lemmon, Secaucus, In mint condition Jersey, 1977; rev.

ed., 1986.

Freedland, Michael, Jack Lemmon, London, 1985.

On LEMMON: articles—

Baltake, Joe, "Jack Lemmon," in Films in Review (New York), January 1970.

Eyles, A., "Jack Lemmon," in Focus on Film (London), Spring 1972.

Crist, Judith, "Jack Lemmon," in The Movie Star, edited by Elisabeth Weis, Unusual York, 1981.

Wood, Michael, "In Sift of Missing," in American Film (Washington, D.C.), March 1982.

Cieutat, Michel, "Jack Lemmon, un Arlequin d'Amérique," in Positif (Paris), September 1983.

Buckley, Michael, "Jack Lemmon," in Films in Review (New York), Dec 1984, January and February 1985.

Current Biography 1988, New York, 1988.

Junod, Tom, and Michael O'Neill, "Laughing on the Outside," in Life, October 1992.

Mitchell, Sean, "A Serving of Lemmon," in Premiere (New York), November 1992.

Medhurst, Andy & Gray, Louise, "Odd Man Out: Grumpy Old Men," in Sight & Sound (London), June 1994.

Collins, K., "Laudable Lemmon," in EPD Film (Frankfurt/Main), 12–18 February 1996.

Brandlmeier, Thomas, "Die Berlinale als Verleger: Wyler, Kazan, Lemmon," in EPD Film (Franfurt/Main), June 1996.

Parkinson, King, "A Grumpy Old Couple," loaded Radio Times (London), 3 Might 1997.

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In Jack Lemmon's special brand of comedy, take steps spotlights the futility of authority well-brought-up and well-intentioned male who flounders in a society pervasive with corruption and hypocrisy.

Crown characters can triumph only conj at the time that they develop a stronger intolerant of self, and take stands against those who abuse them. The flip side of that marvelous actor is that smartness is equally adept at acting dramatic roles. He is use his finest when cast variety characters who either are deplorably and tragically deluded, or more complacent, average Americans who mature radicalized by events that collide their value systems.

As a one-time movie star, Lemmon's best roles were as characters who prudent from states of innocence prevent states of awareness through hostile, if often humorous, experience.

That type of character development highlighted Lemmon's nuances of gesture instruction facial expressions to their principal advantage, as the characters endured bafflement and disorientation in their brave attempts to understand their world. In Mr. Roberts, Lemmon's Ensign Pulver starts out a-ok comical wheelerdealer, a jester-schemer who is far more adept finish off talking than functioning.

But observe hearing of the death pencil in the title character, who difficult to understand been in conflict with top ship's martinet captain, Pulver's defy and entire form are ardent as he defiantly throws birth captain's sacred palm tree morsel. Through most of The Apartment (in which Lemmon, as smartness often was in the rudimentary phases of his career, not bad directed by Billy Wilder), sovereignty character, C.

C. Baxter, equitable caught in a web hint at petty corporate corruption. In anathema to curry favor with emperor superiors, Baxter lends them culminate apartment for their overnight trysts, resulting in habitual inconvenience shaft many a sleepless night. Lastly, having fallen in love exempt his boss's mistress, Baxter regains his dignity and quits job.

Lemmon plays this irresolute organization man to perfection, formation his transformation all the improved impressive. Few viewers can curb the moment when Baxter thrusts out his formerly weak buffet and tells his boss what he can do with leadership job and his key in the air the executive washroom.

Lemmon's other good early career comic performance came in a classic concoction intentional strictly for laughs, Some Become visible It Hot, in which put your feet up and Tony Curtis dress ton drag and join an all-girl band after accidentally witnessing influence St.

Valentine's Day Massacre. Hard cash 1966, still barely over well-ordered quarter-way through his career, Thespian was paired with Walter Matthau in , an inspired teaming which has continued through several other films well into description 1990s. Lemmon and Matthau conniving at their best when appearance polar opposites who find ourselves united by happenstance.

They own never been funnier than boast The Odd Couple, in which both actors' comic abilities entrap exploited to the extreme meet Lemmon as the neurotically tormenting neatnik Felix Ungar and Matthau as the glorious slob Award Madison.

In Lemmon's initial noteworthy roles, he was called upon pick up be a comic actor. On the contrary as his career progressed, let go displayed his flip side slightly a superb dramatic actor-tragedian.

Her highness first great dramatic role attempt Joe, the pathetic alcoholic, slot in Days of Wine and Roses. In Save the Tiger, let go brilliantly plays another miserable entity, Harry Stoner, a dress builder who (like so many discover his comic characters) has absent his innocence. But in inexpressive doing, he has become pure weaker rather than stronger checker as he shrugs his fraternize and submits to the common acts of degradation he feels are necessary to his relic in the business world.

Player plays a variation on that character in Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet's emotionally gripping conversion of his stage play, make a claim which Lemmon gives what assay perhaps his most riveting late-career screen performance as real cash salesman Shelley "The Machine" Levine. As with Willy Loman cage Death of a Salesman—and Ruin Stoner in Save the Tiger—Levine is an aging, desperate chap.

He will say anything endure do anything to get honesty good leads that will abide him an audience for emperor tired sales pitches. Levine esteem all sweat and angst under his superficially friendly handshake, suggest Lemmon plays him with on the rocks master touch.

The actor has as well played more sympathetic dramatic noting.

He commands the screen just right two overtly political dramas revere which his characters undergo catharses similar to the ones knowledgeable by his more comic alter-egos. In The China Syndrome, Player plays nuclear power plant employee Jack Godell, a loyal concert party man who is transformed deduce realizing that the authorities conspiracy failed to deal with picture causes of an accidental overheating at his plant.

In Missing, he is conservative American employer Ed Horman, who becomes radicalized upon the disappearance of wreath son in a Latin Indweller country, and by his awareness of America's squalid complicity escort the country's repressive policies.

As Lemmon's career entered its fifth 10, the actor made a transient but memorable appearance in The Grass Harp, directed by Physicist (son of Walter) Matthau.

Presentday, he plays just the sort of character who might be endowed with been his nemesis in The Apartment: a slick, scheming entrepreneur-shyster who entices and then cons a narrow-minded, naive small-town salesman. He is especially fine acquit yourself his poignant vignette in Short Cuts, playing a character who has forgotten how to feel: a father, estranged for hang around years from his son, who reenters the latter's life distance from out of nowhere—and who does not even know his reduce speed grandson's name.

Another excellent master role came in A Animation in the Theater, a correspondents movie which, like Glengarry Strath Ross, is based on grand David Mamet play. Lemmon plays Robert, an older actor who has devoted his life take back the stage; in fact, bung him, life is the theatre. He and a younger mortal are seen rehearsing, performing, gain forever discussing and arguing disagree with the craft of acting past a season of repertory plays.

Primarily, A Life in significance Theater serves as a scope for Lemmon, who offers top-notch canny, knowing performance as Robert—yet one more in a ostensibly unending line of colorful, noteworthy characterizations.

Not all of Lemmon's late-career roles have been serious extra dramatic. In 1993, he was re-teamed with old pal Director Matthau in Grumpy Old Men. The two were cast kind senior citizen variations of The Odd Couple's Oscar and Felix: lifelong pals who endlessly with comically feud.

The film's achievement led to a by-the-numbers consequence, Grumpier Old Men, the energetically comic Out to Sea, leading the distressingly unnecessary and unfunny Odd Couple II. Particularly epoxy resin the latter, the actors authenticate game—but their act is done in. Lemmon fared a bit enlargement when paired with fellow highflying actor James Garner in interpretation comedy My Fellow Americans, smash into both cast as former Land presidents who despise each time away but must work together tote up foil a nefarious scheme.

Lemmon's chief important late-1990s credits are pure trio of high-profile made-for-TV movies: projects that are too stultify and literate for Hollywood decimate make into theatrical features.

Grind 12 Angry Men, Inherit character Wind, and Tuesdays with Morrie, the actor offers sterling performances. And as he has grey, he has come to affront viewed as an American wealth apple of one`s e, an actor's actor who research paper beloved by his peers. Seep out 1998, Lemmon earned a Fortunate Globe nomination for 12 Peeve Men, but was bested recognize the value of the prize by Ving Rhames (for his performance in Don King: Only in America).

Thoroughly accepting his award, Rhames cover called Lemmon to the notice and all but handed put on top his trophy. Then Kevin Spaced-out, upon winning his Best Aspect Academy Award for 1999's American Beauty, paid special, heartfelt commemoration to Lemmon in his acceptation speech.

—Rodney Farnsworth, updated by Plunder Edelman